Tim Dantay shows his caring side

HE was the Corrie baddie who kidnapped Toyah Battersby and laughingly says villains are normally the best roles to play, but Tim Dantay shows a more vulnerable side in Bomber’s Moon as new care assistant David.

HE was the Corrie baddie who kidnapped Toyah Battersby and laughingly says villains are normally the best roles to play, but Tim Dantay shows a more vulnerable side in Bomber’s Moon as new care assistant David.

It’s Tim first time in Coventry although he has worked in Warwick before on TV’s Dangerfield.

If his face looks familiar that probably because his long list of acting credits includes many TV roles from The Diary Of Anne Frank alongside Iain Glen to Doctors and I’m Alan Partridge to Playing The Field, Bleak House, Common As Much also be William Ivory and, more recently, 32 Brinkburn Street.

He says failing his A-levels first set him on the acting road. He had planned to go to PE college to study sport and says with a wry smile: “I had a place and was ready to go, but then I failed A-levels. In the back of my mind it did make me think if it what I really wanted to do and I decided what I really wanted was to do was act. I was always the joker at school and fooling around with my mates, but drama school in Manchester was a revelation to me. It was a new world to me.”

His first acting role saw him wearing Marlene Dietrich style drag in Bent and his TV debut was a one-line role in old sci-fi series Tripods.

Work has recently taken him to Berlin and Spain, but away from acting Tim is likely to be found playing guitar and recording music with his friends in the studio under the name Fuse.

“I played in a band when I was in Manchester and I just enjoy picking up the guitar at the end of the day. It’s something I can fit in when I can.”